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I suggest you look up how Google Safebrowsing works; it's not how you may think. I'm pretty anti-Google and I leave this feature switched on because I believe t

I suggest you look up how Google Safebrowsing works; it's not how you may think. I'm pretty anti-Google and I leave this feature switched on because I believe the trade-offs are worthwhile.

GhettoComputers 5y ago
>Google maintains the Safe Browsing Lookup API, which has a privacy drawback: "The URLs to be looked up are not hashed so the server knows which URLs the API users have looked up". The Safe Browsing Update API, on the other hand, compares 32-bit hash prefixes of the URL to preserve privacy. The Chrome, Firefox and Safari browsers use the latter. >Safe Browsing also stores a mandatory preferences cookie on the computer. >Google Safe Browsing "conducts client-side checks. If a website looks suspicious, it sends a subset of likely phishing and social engineering terms found on the page to Google to obtain additional information available from Google's servers on whether the website should be considered malicious". Logs, "including an IP address and one or more cookies" are kept for two weeks. They are "tied to the other Safe Browsing requests made from the same device." Looks like it works exactly like I thought it did and is not useful to me and a privacy concern.
- kaba0 5y ago
  > The Safe Browsing Update API, on the other hand, compares 32-bit hash prefixes of the URL to preserve privacy. The Chrome, Firefox and Safari browsers use the latter. How exactly?
  - GhettoComputers 5y ago
    The rest of it. >Safe Browsing also stores a mandatory preferences cookie on the computer. >Google Safe Browsing "conducts client-side checks. If a website looks suspicious, it sends a subset of likely phishing and social engineering terms found on the page to Google to obtain additional information available from Google's servers on whether the website should be considered malicious". Logs, "including an IP address and one or more cookies" are kept for two weeks. They are "tied to the other Safe Browsing requests made from the same device."

I suggest you look up how Google Safebrowsing works; it's not how you may think. I'm pretty anti-Google and I leave this feature switched on because I believe the trade-offs are worthwhile.

GhettoComputers 5y ago

>Google maintains the Safe Browsing Lookup API, which has a privacy drawback: "The URLs to be looked up are not hashed so the server knows which URLs the API users have looked up". The Safe Browsing Update API, on the other hand, compares 32-bit hash prefixes of the URL to preserve privacy. The Chrome, Firefox and Safari browsers use the latter. >Safe Browsing also stores a mandatory preferences cookie on the computer. >Google Safe Browsing "conducts client-side checks. If a website looks suspicious, it sends a subset of likely phishing and social engineering terms found on the page to Google to obtain additional information available from Google's servers on whether the website should be considered malicious". Logs, "including an IP address and one or more cookies" are kept for two weeks. They are "tied to the other Safe Browsing requests made from the same device." Looks like it works exactly like I thought it did and is not useful to me and a privacy concern.

kaba0 5y ago
> The Safe Browsing Update API, on the other hand, compares 32-bit hash prefixes of the URL to preserve privacy. The Chrome, Firefox and Safari browsers use the latter. How exactly?
- GhettoComputers 5y ago
  The rest of it. >Safe Browsing also stores a mandatory preferences cookie on the computer. >Google Safe Browsing "conducts client-side checks. If a website looks suspicious, it sends a subset of likely phishing and social engineering terms found on the page to Google to obtain additional information available from Google's servers on whether the website should be considered malicious". Logs, "including an IP address and one or more cookies" are kept for two weeks. They are "tied to the other Safe Browsing requests made from the same device."